Then & Now

Eight summers,
by hand.

Nobody bought this place finished. One family cut it out of the mountain a summer at a time, and they still run it today.

Built by: Tom, BJ, Dusty & Josh Hoover
Time to build: ≈ 8 summers
Materials: Timber felled on the property
Owned by: The same family

They cut it out of the trees that were already here

Tom and BJ Hoover and their two sons, Dusty and Josh, cut the timber that was standing on the property and peeled every log by hand. Anything that could be milled here was milled here — the siding, the trim, the doors, and the bar that’s still in the saloon.

It took them about eight years to get the lodge and saloon livable, and they could only work in the summers, because up here there isn’t much else.

The hot tub was cut into the granite

They cleared the overgrown ground into meadow and opened up the lake. The hot tub went into the rock overlooking the water — not set down next to it, built into it.

The property has changed every year since, always in the same direction — clear what’s hiding the granite and the water, and add only what a wedding actually needs.

Still run by the family that built it

There’s no management company, no ownership group and no front desk. Someone from The Hideout is on the property the entire time you’re here — we’re off grid, running on solar and a generator, and it needs looking after.

It’s also why the rule book is so short. The people who wrote it are the same people who cut the logs.

When you want the truly unique and one of a kind,look no further than the middle of the woods.

The Hideout, in its own words

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